Method of treating rheumatic or other diseases.



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. GASIM'IR woLBERS'.- OF CHICAGO, ILLINoIs 7 METHOD oF 1 -raE4'li1-me.V RHEUMATIC ori OTHER DISEASES.

srncmcanorr fomig of Letter. 'Patent No; 791,233,6attd'my so, 1905.

l I Application led October 6,1904. Serial No. 227,343. I

To ftZ w'homl itimay concenr- Beit knownI that I,CAS'IMIR WoLPERs, la

citizen of the United States of America,'resid ing at Chicago,

in the county of Cook and -State o Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Methods of Treating- Rheumatic or other Diseases, of which the fol-v lowing is a specification.

My invention relates to a certain improved method for treating rheumatic and other diseases, and the same will befullyunderstood from the following description.

`The apparatus preferably used in practicing my improved method is illustrated.. in the drawings accompanying this specitication, in

which- Figure 1 isa side elevation. Fig. 2 is a. longitudinal section in the line2 and Fig. 3 is a transverse section in the line 3 vBo Fig. 2.'

The apparatus herein shown is not herein claimed, but is made the subject of a separate application filed o'n even date herewith by myself and Thomas F. Barrett; but it will be obvious from the following description of my methodthat the preferred form of apparatus can bev varied to a considerable extent.

Referring to the drawings, it will be seen that the body of the apparatus consists of an oven A, having la fiat base a and arched sides and top af. The particular construction of this oven will be more-fully described inthe joint application.abovereferred to. It will be seen,

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however, from the drawings that the walls are dou ble and separated by an air-space to afford effective'insulation. Suitable. tracks A' are placed upon the bottom of the oven A, upon Awhich tracks 'runs a table B, thejouter end of which is supported by feet B,. running on .casters b. A hood the neck of the patient to .prevent the escape of heat at that end of the structure. A fan D provides for the movement of "air within the admixture of the 2 of Fig'. 3,

-exposed to the mix with rheumatic patients. It will C is provided, which rits 4the'open end .of the oven and is adapted to be" drawn down about oven to produce a E, are blue and the other half', E', are violet, and it, will be seen from the drawings that the blue and violet lamps alternate in' each row both longitudinally and transversely, so that a thorough various lights can ybe --obtained when desired. v

In practicing my improved method a patient is wrapped in several layers of' heavy cloth, preferably `Turkish toweling'. and reclines upon the table, which is drawn from the oven to receive him.- He is then pushed into the oven and the hood is adjusted about his neck. 'The violet lights are then turned on for a considerable periodof time, usually about fifteen or twenty minutes, 4after which the violet lights are extinguished and the blue lights are turned on for alike all the lights .are turned on and the patient is riod. The result of this treatment is that the patient is exposed to a very considerable heat, which can be regulated by turning on any number of the lamps which may be desired,

separate switches being provided for this purpose, as illustrated. The effect of the light itself, furthermore.

greatly accelerates the dissolving of uric acid and urates, so that my improved method is particularly desirable thatsmaller devices than the one herein shown period. Thereupon ed rays for a similar pebe obvious can be made for treating a portion of the body .only-as, for instance, the arm or leg. I reali'zethat considerable variationy is possible in the procedure herein set forth, and I do not intend to limit myself thereto except as `pointed out inthe claims.

Iclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1.. The herein-described method of -treating i rheumatic lorother diseases, which consists in exposing .the patlent 1n succession to violet and blue rays of light. v

2; Ihe herein-described method of treating l rheumatic or `other diseases'which consists in exposing the patient successively to violet and Vbluevrays oflight in a confined chamber.

8. 'The herein-described method of treating rheumatic or other-diseases, which consistsin exposing the patient to mixed violet and blue rays.

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rheumatic or other diseases, which consists in exposing the patient to mixed violetfand blue rays Within a confined chamber.

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5. The herein-described method of treating rheumatic or other diseases, which consists in exposing the patient iirst to violet rays and' then to blue rays, and subsequently to a :nix-y ture of blue and violet rays.

6. The herein-described method of treating rheumatic or other diseases which consists in exposing the patient iirst to violet rays of light then to blue rays of light and iinally to the mixture of violet and blue rays of light all within a confined chamber.

7. The herein-described method of treating rheumatic or other diseases which consists in exposing the patient first to violet rays of light, then to blue rays of light, and finally to the mixture of violet and blue rays of light, all within a confined chamber and agitating the air within the chamber.

In witness whereof l have signed the above application for Letters Patent, at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, this 28th day of September, A. D. 1904.

CASIMIR WOLPERS.

Witnesses:

CHAs. O. SHERVEY, RUSSELL WILEs. 

